Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

‘Well. Where to begin to approach this dazzling writer? Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich used the word “magnificent” to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s work.’

Monthly

‘Olga Tokarczuk is a masterful storyteller who challenges expectations of what a story can be.’

Age

‘The extraordinary pleasure of reading this book lies not in finding out “who did it”, but in the defamiliarising prose, characterisation, observation and philosophy that emerge from each page.’

Saturday Paper

'Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy.'

The Economist

‘Ridiculous and existentially challenging by turns, this is a wildly inventive book.’

Overland

'Shimmering with subversive brilliance...this is not your conventional crime story—for Tokarczuk is not your conventional writer. Through her extraordinary talent and intellect, and her ‘thinking novels,’ she ponders and tackles larger ecological and political issues. The stakes are always high; Tokarczuk repeatedly rises to the occasion and raises a call to arms.'

HuffPost

'Sometimes the opening sentence of a first-person narrative can so vividly capture the personality of its speaker that you immediately want to spend all the time you can in their company. That’s the case with . . . Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead...[a] barbed and subversive tale about what it takes to challenge the complacency of the powers that be.'

Boston Globe